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The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore By Lorrie Moore

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore


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Summary

Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. This title gathers together her complete stories and also includes: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, and Debarking.

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore Summary

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: 'An unadulterated delight.' OBSERVER by Lorrie Moore

'One of the funniest writers alive.' Dave Eggers
'Her stories, her stories, are perfect.' Slate
'Such a delight.' Sunday Telegraph

'Poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny.' Guardian

A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.

Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.

About Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore was born in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, and attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. Her work has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and Best American Short Stories. She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of three collections of short stories - Self-Help, Like Life and Birds of America - and the novels Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? She is also editor of The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.

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GOR001937860
9780571239368
0571239366
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: 'An unadulterated delight.' OBSERVER by Lorrie Moore
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
20090507
672
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